Every app and app developer could use crash/bug reports. I can understand your paranoia that something else is being sent but I would hardly call the idea of asking to send back bug reports abhorrent.

I'm a developer myself and I absolutely oppose this practice. I don't do it and I don't want others to either. The possibility of exposing sensitive information is just not worth it. If you discover a bug you can always make a bug report and provide any details there. In that case, the consent and scope of disclosure is made very explicit. Chances are you don't know what information a machine-generated bug report contains, but you do know what you wrote when you reported it.

Most browser user will NEVER report a bug, maybe they will ask on a forum, giving very limited and misleading context.

As far as i remember you can read the whole automated bug report or even modify it. did i miss something?

The comment that you were replying to didn't mention anything about "asking to send back bug reports."

Decent gaslighting attempt, but no.

This is not paranoia, scummy software developers have actually sent much more than crash reports. And crash reports may contain private information anyway.

Before anyone says Mozilla is different: http://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-tests-cliqz-engine-whic...

That's not what gaslighting is.

isn't cliqz basically the same as duckduckgo? i understand if you do not trust them specifically, but what i read there is that mozilla was intentionally reducing the information it could collect.

i have seen this article already 5 times on this post, what is the point?

I'm with you and would go a step further, if anything ad/tracking blocking should be opt-out for any pro consumer browser.